Classification, annotated list and keys for the black flies (Diptera: Simuliidae) of Peninsular MalaysiaAuthorTakaoka, HiroyukiAuthorYa’Cob, ZubaidahAuthorSofian-Azirun, MohdtextZootaxa20182018-10-1244981165journal articlehttps://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4498.1.11175-53261459138334E786F-2793-4F10-909C-4ABBDA4075ED
15.
Simulium
(
Gomphostilbia
)
johorense
Takaoka, Sofian-Azirun
& Ya’cob, 2014
Simulium
(
Gomphostilbia
)
johorense
Takaoka
et al
., 2014a
: 17
–24 (Female, male, pupa and larva).
This species was described from females, males, pupae and larvae (
Takaoka
et al
., 2014a
). It is characterized in the female by the subcosta which is bare or with one to five hairs, in the male by the number of enlarged upper-eye facets (13 vertical columns and 14 horizontal rows), and in the pupa by the gill with eight slender filaments arranged as 3+3+2 from dorsal to ventral, of which the longest inner filament of the ventral paired filaments is 1.5 times or little more the length of the other six filaments.
This species is distributed in
Johor
(
type
locality) and
Negeri Sembilan
. The aquatic stages were found in small lowland streams.